As I've mentioned before I was working on a script for a TV series. It's been about a year in the making, and has come along very nicely. However, over the course of the screenwriting I discovered that the accumulated material amounts to much more than a TV series script, and thought that perhaps it will be better rendered in another form. Here's my big news: I decided to try it out as a novel. It's a major project that will most likely take a couple of years to complete, and it is very challenging, and a bit scary. I'm going forward with it. In the current stages I will take the work already completed in terms of story, character construction, themes, scenes, etc. and work on designing a structure and format that would best fit the bill. I'm also starting a research reading list that contains everything from the King James Bible (at which as you probably guessed I will be taking more than a few stabs) to scientific articles on a certain kind of jellyfish. The tapestry of the novel is very rich and it reflects the zeitgeist. In its core is futility and the vanity of human thought.
In other news, "Bird of Prey" is nearing completion. "Fences" will be put aside in favor of the planned short fiction review. And the four pieces completed thus far: "The Breakers", "End Dream", "Lena", and "Bird of Prey" will be revised and sent off to journals for publication. Once that process is more or less complete, work on the novel will resume. Future pieces of short fiction, such as "Fences" will still appear but the main focus will be reverted back to my major project.
Wish me luck!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment